A History of the Mahrattas v1.c17.68

v1.c17.68

Aurungzebe understood and took advantage of these feuds. The reader, at all acquainted with the Hindoo character, can conceive the bitter rancour with which they pursued these quarrels, when there are several instances of one party becoming a Mahomedan, in order to ruin his adversary and gratify revenge. The services of the Hindoo Munsubdars under the Mahomedan states became exactly in proportion to the measure of punishment or reward, which the government they acknowledged could inflict or bestow.